Melissa Crawley has a PhD in media studies from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her book: Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington: Shaping the President on Television's \x34The West Wing\x34 was published in 2006. She has also published work online
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Melissa Crawley has a PhD in media studies from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her book: Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington: Shaping the President on Television's \x34The West Wing\x34 was published in 2006. She has also published work online at PopMatters and Flow as well as chapters in the edited collections: The American President in Popular Culture and The Great American Makeover. Her weekly syndicated television column, Stay Tuned, is part of GateHouse News Service. Follow her on Twitter @melissacrawley

Our country as a whole is faced with a rising number of people who are overweight or even obsess. This is caused from a combination of many different things. Over eating, lack of exercise and even just poor food choices are one of the many things that we are told continuities to this rising problem.

There has been talk that the ads and commercials we see on TV can play a large part in our overeating as well. This is a personal option and not a proven fact, but give it some thought. When you are sitting down watching TV with your family and an ad for a bag of chips comes on the screen, does it make you want to go snack on something in your own kitchen? Often times we will see an ad for a new hamburger at the local fast food restaurant and before you know it, you are sitting in the drive through because you just had to try it.

So many be the speculations about ads and commercials are true. Possibly they are leading to the rising problem of obesity in America. I think this is based on an individual basis and not an over all one though.